Archive for May, 2010
Walking onions
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: Egyptian walking onions, kitchen onions, walking onions
Known also as Egyptian walking onions, walking onions are a great everyday kitchen onion. I got my first walking onion from a friend of my dad. I didn’t know a thing about them! I had never grown an onion in my life but I had chives and figured I had nothing to lose in giving [...]
$50 deck pick-me-up!
My husband and I had some nice plans for our deck this summer. Having fully funded the emergency fund, we had decided to save a bit of money and buy new chairs, fire pit and other things for our deck. We had a great deck built almost 9 years ago, but with a growing family [...]
Asparagus- A bed for the next 25 years!
Okay, I love asparagus! It wasn’t always that way but now I’m hooked on those tender spring jewels from the ground! I’ve been wanting to create an asparagus bed for two years now, but the physical size of the bed kept forcing me to put it off. Asparagus send out a tap root that can [...]